A certain brother prayed to see the Lord Yishu, but on one condition, that He appear exactly as He was when He visited earth over 2,000 years ago, since the brother knew the Lord could appear in any form of man (or anything else for that matter) that He desired. The brother was earnest in his prayer, but after a week or so forgot that he had asked this. The brother was in the habit of waking at 3 AM to wait before the Lord in prayer.

One night, as he waited he opened his eyes slightly, and saw that the sun was beginning to dawn. He was very excited for it seemed to him that three hours had passed by as if it were only 40 minutes. But then he heard footsteps coming from upstairs in the area of his bedroom. He thought to himself, “My wife is awake.” The footsteps continued and seemed to be making their way to the staircase. The brother said to himself, “Oh no, she probably wants me to kill a spider or something, but I am praying, I do not want her to bother me.” Sure enough, the footsteps began to come down the stairs, and the brother said within his heart, “I know what I will do, I will put my head to the ground so that she knows that I am engaged in deep prayer, and then she will notice me, and leave me alone.”

The footsteps came all the way down the stairs, and just as the brother feared they came all the way up to the curtain of the prayer room where he was, the brother stayed in his position keeping his eyes shut tight. After an awkward moment the brother said to himself, “This is unusual, she seems to be very collected and quiet, and not bothered,” he was not accustomed to this level of patience from his wife, so he decided to peek very subtly at the curtain of the prayer room, and lo, he saw a bare foot.

This foot was not the foot of a woman, it was the foot of a man. It was a medium brown colored foot. The brother just stared at it, above the foot was the edge of something like a worn tunic of some kind. It was maroon and faded, as if it was the only article of clothing this person had. As he was pondering this sight, a drop of blood fell upon this foot, seemingly from the head or arm or somewhere on the person’s body that was higher up. The brother immediately gasped and said within himself, “Oh no, it cannot be, this cannot be.”

The brother slowly looked up following the worn maroon tunic to the face of a middle eastern man with a large hooked nose, short trim duck-tailed beard, beautiful deep brown eyes, and wavy black hair parted in the middle, and pulled back. What the brother saw before him was the most beautiful human being he had ever seen in his life, he did not know someone could be that beautiful. The beauty from within this One he saw before him was emanating out of this One and causing His physical appearance to be more beautiful than it already was.

The brother did not know what to do next, so he began to slowly stand up, he thought to himself, I will give Him a hug I guess, but what if it is not Him? What if it is the devil appearing as Yishu, trying to trick me to worship him, and what if…” As the brother’s thoughts were racing he leaned in slightly to give the One before him a hug, but he was met with a stiff palm which landed squarely in the middle of his chest. The arm of the One was gentle but as strong and immovable as iron, any thought the brother had to fight this rejection he immediately quenched, since he knew that resistance would be both useless and futile.

At that moment the Lord opened His mouth and spoke with a deep peace to the brother, He said,

“Those that embrace Me, must embrace Me, with faith.”

The Holy Lord removed His hand and opened both of His arms to the brother. The brother said within himself, to stir up belief within himself, “Lord, I know it is You Lord, it is You.” The brother went in for a hug and the Lord embraced him, and the brother was filled with both comfort and joy, as the longing for his Father was finally satisfied.

After the embrace the brother did not know what to say to the Lord, he could not find words, but he wanted Him to stay longer. The Lord began to walk away, to the end of the prayer room where there was a table and communion elements on it. The Lord began to fade away and shrink and go into the bread that was placed upon the table. The brother thought to himself, “You live in there?”

Quietly satisfied the brother looked out of the window at the sunrise, smiled and closed his eyes. He opened his eyes to alarm and surprise, as he was seated in his prayer room, in the middle of the dark of night, the sun was nowhere in sight, it was only 3:24 AM. The brother became enveloped in the Fear of the LORD, as he realized the visitation that he had just received.